Belladium Womens Ride hits 150!!

Lee's team, Belladium, had a women's ride this past weekend. They reached their limit of 150 registered riders for the 32 mile road route. That is AWESOME!! Team Belladium provided cue sheets, a lovely route through the green countryside, yummy lunch and a very cool goody bag with a baby blue tshirt....women's fit!

So, Molly, Jen and I decided to make the drive up to ride with Lee.

I drove up Saturday morning, and stopped at Greenlife, in Chattanooga, along the way. This is Molly's favorite grocery store, so I wanted to check it out.

Very cool beer selection.

And the icing on the cake is that Rock Creek Outfitters is two doors down! Love that store!!

The ride started/ended at Arrington Vineyards, which is south of Nashville.

Jen, Molly and friends.

It was really amazing to see the ladies lined up down the road. What a great group!

It gets a little toasty in Tennessee during the summer, so we found some shade after the ride and cooled for 2 minutes before heading back out to cheer on and ride along side some more ladies.

Mo, me and Jen. Yep, don't really know what is going on with the oooh-la-la unzipped jersey there.

Lee, Jen, Molly, and new friend.

Lee and David, our old Ga Cross buddies.

Lunch was perfect! It really hit the spot when I cooled down and found out I was starving.

Grapes on the vine.

After the ride, I changed and headed into Nashville for some sight-seeing. The Team Belladium lunch really hit the spot and I was a happy camper....off to see the Parthenon.

Athena

The history of the building and all the other buildings, that were demolished, was pretty interesting. They had actually built the blue grotto, complete with gondola rides into the cave and greek statues. ( I will never forget our boat ride into the blue grotto on the Island of Capri. We had to lay down in the boat and ride in-between the waves, and the boat still slammed up against the top wall of the opening to the cave. Yikes!)

Next, I hit the farmer's market. Nashville has a REAL farmer's market and it's huge!

They also have a garden center, an air conditioned international food court and a really cool flea market. The flea market reminded me of the shops along the border of Mexico. (US side)

I picked up some peaches and a tomato for snacking on the way home.

Huge thanks to Team Belladium for putting on a great event and I know they will fill up quickly for 2011.

Shower for Kate!

We had one baby shower done and now it was time to get together and celebrate Kate extending her family to add "sunchip".

Everyone pulled together and came up with amazing food and yummy punch.

Kate made off with some pretty cool stuff. They have so much more to offer for active moms now then when our boys were little.

Molly found a very cool little wool beanie in Peru.

It was lots of fun catching up with everyone and Aimee came up with a pretty cool game for us to play....even though we are not game players and I refuse to put those pictures on here because we had to wear name tags.....the game was pretty hilarious considering the crowd who was playing and everyone had fun!

Linda and Alison are training for an iron man in October, Norma has a 50k trail run coming up and Molly is doing a crazy team ultra distance run from Athens to Helen? So it was great to get the low-down on all their training.

The hostesses: Alison, Me, Aimee, (preggers Kate) and Molly

Looking forward to more mini-Sorella members.

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Trip to Texas to visit family

We had a great trip to visit family in Texas over the weekend.

The boys and I rented a car and it was really fast and easy, then headed to Boerne to see Mom and Dad.

Our first stops were our favorite places to eat.....Taco Cabana and Bear Moon Bakery. Yum!

On Saturday morning we stopped by Rylie's work to visit. I have two nieces, Rylie and SaVanna, who are so cool and so much alike.

We made plans to see Aunt Ruth at the feed mill and Kay was there to give us a tour.

Lindner Feed Mill

Kay showing us the new, high-tech equipment.

My grandfather built these posts out of a stack of 1 x 12's. My dad and grandfather helped build the feed bins.

Aunt Ruth has worked at the feed mill forever and she looked great! Glenn met us at the mill and we went to lunch together at a great little cafe that is now in the old firehouse.

Jansen, Aunt Ruth, Everett and Opa (Glenn) Jansen is holding the really cool new Lindner Feed hats that Aunt Ruth gave us. LOVE THEM!

Kay (the tour guide and all around cool guy) is in the center in the blue shirt.

After lunch we headed over to Suzanne's (Shey's mom)

Amber was there, too and we got to see Debbie, but I didn't get pictures.

SaVanna, Suzanne, Everett, Jansen, Bland

SaVanna, Everett, Jansen

After visiting Shey's family, we stopped by to see my Uncle Ace at the retirement home. He was sad that his rabbit was missing, but he looked good and happy to be there with his friends. I also saw the grandfather of an old high school friend of mine. Mr. Holekamp was looking quite dapper.

On Sunday, we took a road trip with Mom and Dad to Fredricksburg to look at antique tools, pick up some peaches and visit a winery.

Three Sisters Winery.

An old classmate of mine was working at this BBQ place, where we stopped for lunch. It was really good food!

My Super-Duper parallel parking job....

Jansen was drooling over Dad's work shed and he found some power tools for Jansen to bring home. They disguised the box as a cardboard suitcase....:>)

It was a very nice and relaxing trip and it was great to see everybody looking so happy and healthy.